Workplace
We create workplaces designed for life - not just the 9 to 5. From a net zero office space in Southwark to an office at the heart of Manchester’s MediaCity, find the perfect fit for 10-150+ desks.
The Forge, Bankside
Inspired by its industrial past and built for the future, it’s our first net zero carbon workplace.
n2, Victoria
Part of the Nova campus, n2 is an oasis of calm in vibrant Victoria.
Lucent, Piccadilly
Bright and airy offices allow people to take in the inspiring cityscape, especially on the 20 outdoor terraces.
Dashwood, City of London
Dashwood is a boutique tower at an unrivalled City location, providing a unique choice of workspaces to meet customer needs today, and in the future.
140 Aldersgate, City of London
Located in the heart of a vibrant city location, 140 Aldersgate connects business and culture between Farringdon and Barbican.
Retail & Hospitality
We own and operate some of the UK's most renowned retail and hospitality destinations that connect brands with people.
Bluewater, Kent
Bluewater features a curated brand mix of retail and leisure experiences.
Gunwharf Quays, Portsmouth
With its unique waterfront location and maritime history, Gunwharf Quays offers warm hospitality alongside its premium retail and leisure experiences.
St David's, Cardiff
St David’s occupies one third of Cardiff’s city centre, and half of the city’s retail space, establishing it as the beating heart of the community.
Trinity, Leeds
The open-air experience under the iconic domed roof of Trinity Leeds spans over 1 million sq ft of prime retail and hospitality space.
Westgate, Oxford
Modernity meets history in the characterful Westgate Oxford, a stone’s throw away from the historic Oxford Castle Quarter.
Mixed-use regeneration
Working closely with communities and local authorities around the UK, we regenerate urban spaces into thriving places to live, work and play.
Mayfield, Manchester
Mayfield is a 24-acre brownfield site packed with heritage and the River Medlock flowing through its core.
The O2 Centre, Camden
The O2 Centre Masterplan will deliver a new mixed-use urban neighbourhood spanning 14-acres of currently underutilised space in Zone 2 London.
The Galleries, Glasgow
The Galleries, our vision for the redevelopment of Buchanan Galleries, is a once-in-a-generation opportunity to enhance the city centre as a magnetic place for homegrown talent and opportunity.
Lewisham Shopping Centre, Lewisham
We’re developing plans to shape a new centre for Lewisham. The plans will redefine the town centre – offering everyone better choices and new experiences that are firmly rooted in Lewisham's people and culture.
Hartree, Cambridge
Landsec and TOWN, working with Cambridge City Council and Anglian Water, are developing a vision for a new urban quarter in Cambridge.
About
We build and invest in buildings, spaces and partnerships to create sustainable places, connect communities and realise potential.
Impact report
Our 2022 impact report deep dives into the ways our places and activities are making a difference across the UK. From our economic contributions to the social and sustainable value we deliver, we recognise that the consequences of the actions we take as an organisation are both far-reaching and long-lasting.
The potential of sustainable retail
Sustainable retail has the potential to boost local UK economies by nearly £100m and grow brand revenues by up to 13%.
Investors
Discover the strategy that drives our success, as we create sustainable value for our three types of investor: institutional, private and debt.
2023 half year results
Land Securities Group PLC announced its half year results for the six months ended 30 September 2023 on Tuesday 14th November 2023.
Capital Markets Day - September 2023
We're hosting a Capital Markets Event for analysts and investors at our London office developments, Lucent at Piccadilly Circus and n2 in Victoria, which completed earlier this summer.
Sustainable urban places
Building on our competitive advantages. First to opportunities, in shape to act.
Sustainability
We're working to enhance the health of our environment and improve quality of life for our people, customers and communities - now, and for future generations.
Landsec Futures
Landsec Futures is a £20m fund that aims to deliver around £200m of social value by 2030, supporting at least 30,000 people from underrepresented socio-economic backgrounds towards long-term employment. It will also provide the chance to increase the diversity of talent across the industry and in our business.
Careers
Life at Landsec
We're shining a spotlight on some of the inspirational people that work for us as part of our Life at Landsec series.
Media & Insights
Reimagining the city for gender inclusivity
Hear more from Ellie Cosgrave about how we need to rethink our public spaces and challenge our existing assumptions about how to deliver cities which are successfully inclusive.
For us, sustainability is about the actions we take to fulfil our purpose so Landsec prospers far into the future. We want customers to prefer our spaces. We want communities to be pleased it’s us operating in their area. We want partners to share our priorities. And we want employees to invest their energy and ambition here.
To deliver this we’ve set 22 sustainability targets, within our Build Well, Live Well Act well framework. This section includes a summary of our performance against those commitments and our key disclosures.
Reduce operational carbon emissions (tCO2e) by 70% by 2030, for property under our management for at least two years (compared with a 2013/14 baseline).
55% operational carbon reduction.
Reduce average embodied carbon by 50% compared with a typical building by 2030 by prioritising asset retention where possible, smart design and using sustainable materials.
36% average reduction across development pipeline.
Reduce energy intensity by 45% by 2030 (compared with a 2013/14 baseline).
33% energy intensity reduction.
Source 85% of total energy (electricity, gas, heating and cooling) consumption from renewable sources by 2030.
68%
Ensure 100% of assets located in areas highly exposed to climate risks have adaptation measures in place.
Assets located in areas highly exposed to physical risks continue to ensure adequate protection and mitigation plans are in place, including business continuity and emergency-response plans.
Achieve a 25% biodiversity net gain by 2030 across our operational sites currently offering the greatest potential (2016/17 baseline).
13% biodiversity net gain.
Achieve a 15% uplift in biodiversity for all new developments by 2030.
We are on track to achieve 15% uplift in our current development pipeline.
For every development, source 100% of core construction materials from ethical and sustainable sources, extending this across our full supply chain in due course.
100% of core construction materials with a responsible sourcing certification.
Promote reuse and circular economy principles and achieve at least 75% annual recycling rate across our portfolio and new developments.
Operations recycling rate: 68% New developments recycling rate: 98%
Undertake water management assessment across assets under our operational control and set water targets by 2023.
Water-management assessments undertaken across assets under our operational control, to help shape our water strategy for both our office and retail portfolios.
New water target due to launch later this year.
To see all our Build Well, Live Well and Act Well targets, please click here.
From a 2020 baseline, empower 30,000 people facing barriers into employment with the skills and opportunities to enter the world of work by 2030.
3,012 people empowered includes: • Total number of people supported into employment or received employability support: 1,021 • Total number of young people engaged through our education programmes and careers sessions: 1,991
From a 2020 baseline, deliver £200 million of social value in our local communities by 2030, addressing social issues relevant to each area.
£8.6m of social value delivered includes: • Social value created through programmes focused on creating opportunities for people facing barriers and increasing employability skills in young people, and addressing relevant local needs: £2.3m • Value of support for charities including; volunteering, fundraising, donations and in-kind contributions, such as space donations: £6.1m • Social value created through our development activities: £285,811
We will design, develop and manage our assets and new developments to be accessible ensuring everyone feels like they belong.
Launched our refreshed Diversity & Inclusion (D&I) strategy: Diverse Talent, Inclusive Culture, Inclusive Places. We are implementing a D&I procurement and supply chain strategy with three core objectives; increasing the diversity of our supply chain, improving D&I practices within our supply chain, and working with suppliers who can support us in delivering our strategy. We have included specific D&I training requirements in contract requirements, made the latest guidance on designing for neurodiversity part of our design brief for a major wayfinding contract, and worked with our supply chain partners to develop a D&I plan for our Timber Square development.
New target: Actively recruit, retain and progress a diverse workforce at all levels and nurture and support diverse talent into the wider real estate industry.
40:40:20* gender targets and representative ethnic minority targets by 2030: • Board (20%) • Executive (20%) • Senior Leader (18%) • Leader (18%) * Our 40:40:20 gender diversity targets mean that we will have a minimum of 40% women and 40% men in the relevant population. 20% is flexible accounting for the small headcount and diversity beyond the gender binary.
New target – performance to be reported next year
Promote a culture which enhances Landsec colleagues’ wellbeing, having relevant policies and delivering impactful campaigns.
We continue to respect and encourage the need for balance in all aspects of life, by supporting initiatives such our first Work Life Balance group, create by our Regeneration Development Team to gauge thoughts and feelings, and gather suggestions of things we could do to create the most effective work-life balance This year we also created a new policy for colleagues going through pregnancy loss, with paid time off, and improved our policy on compassionate leave, which recognises the importance of close relationships outside of immediate family. We also created comprehensive guidelines on how to support colleagues through loss or bereavement, to equip our colleagues to do this in the best way
Achieve WELL portfolio programme annually for our directly managed office portfolio and new developments setting a baseline score against which we will aim for continual improvement
We submitted evidence for WELL portfolio certification for four assets; 80-100 Victoria Street, Dashwood House, Zig Zag Building and One New Change. We are also targeting WELL Equity certification for our managed offices portfolio. Additionally, across our development schemes, we’re targeting WELL Core Gold or above for offices
All Landsec colleagues to have individual objectives to support the delivery of Build well, Live well, Act well with a proportion of remuneration linked to our energy and carbon targets.
Ensuring every colleague takes responsibility for achieving our sustainability vision, we link a proportion of our remuneration to achieving our energy and carbon targets, and we asked 100% of our colleagues to set an annual objective demonstrating how they contribute to our sustainability commitments.
Build relationships with our customer base (office and brand partners), establishing partnerships to drive improved sustainability performance for mutual gain.
We engaged 25 office occupiers through energy audits, to identify opportunities to reduce their energy consumption by 20-30%.
Build relationships with our strategic suppliers ensuring compliance to our Supplier Code of Conduct and enhancing sustainable practices throughout our supply chain.
We published our Supply Chain Commitment, which sets out how we do business, the commitments we’ve set ourselves, and the minimum requirements we expect of all those we work with. 100% of our strategic partners align with our sustainability requirements and are working with us for a sustainable future, with 93% signing up to our commitment to date. We also published our Sustainable Procurement Guide, a document that provides us with the knowledge to make the right decisions when buying consumables or business services, and to spend money wisely and effectively while supporting our corporate and sustainability commitments.
Provide safe, healthy and secure environments for those who work, visit, live and relax across our managed portfolio, maintaining ISO 45001 and BS 9997 certifications, as well as continually going beyond compliance delivering data-led and risk-prioritised improvement actions and leading the industry on fire safety.
Maintained our ISO 45001 certification, with independent auditors reporting no non-conformances or improvement recommendations. A full recertification audit to this standard will take place in FY23/24 We also maintained certification to BS 9997 for our fire-safety management system. All high-rise residential buildings above 11 metres in our portfolio have been examined by independent fire engineers to ensure they remain safe for occupation and meet stringent new building regulations, with design principles aligned with requirements of the Building Safety Act mandated on all future schemes.
Ensure all colleagues have read, understood and are following our Code of Conduct and underlying policies and standards which set out how we do things building on the foundations of our purpose and values.
No. of grievances raised: 4 No. of whistleblowing incidents: 2
Pay our colleagues the Real Living Wage and work with our suppliers to do the same.
We continue to pay all our direct employees the Real Living Wage and published our Supply Chain Commitment, which sets out the minimum requirements we expect of our suppliers, including aspiring to pay everyone working on our behalf the Real Living Wage.
